can an employer make you work more than 8 hours a day and then send you home early one day that week to keep from paying you over time
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can an employer make you work more than 8 hours a day and then send you home early one day that week to keep from paying you over time
An employer that I am working for makes us stay late on Mondays then sends us
home early another day that week so they do not have to pay us overtime. Is this
legal?
Asked on February 5, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Missouri
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
As long as you do not work more than 40 hours in your work week, you are not entitled to OT. That is unless doing so violates the terms of a union agreement or employment contract. Otherwise, a company can set its schedules as they wish. In fact, it can set all of the conditions of employment as it deems necesary (absent some form of legally actionable discrimination).
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